On 19.07.2024, a draft law was submitted to the National Assembly, which concerns the amendment and addition of the Spatial development Act (SDA). At the moment, the draft law has not been finally voted on.
The new draft law proposes changes that will mainly affect the contractors of investment projects and, in general, all citizens interested in the administrative procedures for spatial planning and investment design.
The purpose of the presented draft law to amend SDA is to speed up the administrative proceedings on:
- authorizing the development of spatial plans and their amendments;
- development and approval of detailed spatial plans and their amendments;
- approval of investment projects;
- issuance of construction permits;
- predicting significant changes in the investment project during construction, etc.
It is envisaged that all processes related to spatial planning and investment design will be carried out through an information system that serves the unified registry of the territorial structure.
Some of the more important changes to the law that we present in this article cover the following provisions:
- Assignments for development of spatial plans, documents related to research and design works for development of spatial plans, as well as all textual and graphic parts to them to be developed as an electronic document;
- The exact time for carrying out actions and establishing facts of legal significance within the procedures for creating, approving, amending spatial plans to be certified with a qualified electronic time stamp;
- Permits to draft a general spatial plan or to amend an existing general spatial plan, as well as permits to draft a detailed spatial plan to be issued as an electronic document;
- Acts for approving projects for detailed spatial plans to be issued as an electronic document;
- All text and graphic documents, on all parts of the investment project, along with the integral documentation to them, should be included in a summarized electronic document;
- All documents – graphic and textual, of the investment project, must be signed with a qualified electronic signature by the competent specialist and by the manager of the legal entity/sole trader, who performed the compliance assessment;
- The complex compliance assessment report should be drawn up as an electronic document and signed with a qualified electronic signature by the manager of the legal entity/sole trader and by all qualified specialists carrying out the assessment of the investment projects in the relevant parts;
- The design visa should be issued as an electronic document and sent electronically to the applicant.
